[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Or, if you are an ex-YahooGroups user, say why you changed > to Mailman?
Because Mailman *works*. Any large free service is bound to have a level of unreliability and with Mailman, I have reliability, fast delivery of emails, the ability to save the archives all in one plain text mbox file to my local hard drive. I never use the web features of Yahoogroups much, I mainly run mailing lists. And with v2.1, Mailman has the most important features of Yahoogroups, moderating new members, moderating individual members, stripping html and/or attachments and searching the member list. And there's no advertising! :) And less spam on my own domains than at Yahoogroups. > I've been using YahooGroups (previously eGroups) for my various > discussion and bulletin lists for years. I think they are very good. > But I'm now looking around for alternatives. I still run some Yahoogroups and in some cases, I have duplicate lists, people can choose to join the YG group or the Mailman list. But I still prefer my Mailman lists over Yahoogroups. Yahoogroups is free, but you get what you pay for, so I expect it to not work reliably and to break from time to time (and Yahoo usually fulfills my expectations ;)). But my Mailman lists just keep going like the energizer bunny. Since I moved to my own server, I'm discovering all the things I can do with root access to Mailman. If you like and use the Yahoogroups web features, you might find bulletin boards/forums like PhpBB or Invision boards to be an easier transition, it's web based but boards can send email notices of new posts in threads or boards so that keeps people involved and checking in at the website. It all depends on what your lists and the membership use and like the most. (and I loved eGroups and Onelist before that, I still miss them! and the great people that used to work there before Yahoo chased them all away.) > And what about Majordomo? How does that compare with Mailman? I haven't used Majordomo in years but I happened to look at the Majordomo site recently, v1 (which I used at one time for a couple years) is straight mailing lists, all admin is thru email commands, no web interface, no archives. v2 is supposed to really good and with the MajorCool web interface, similar to Mailman v2. But from what I could see, there's not a lot of development going on with Majordomo. I prefer using something that is still being developed and improved. hth, texas critter -- EL-M FAQ: http://www.emaillist-managers.com/ ------------------------------------------------------ Mailman-Users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/mailman-users Mailman FAQ: http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw-mm.py Searchable Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/mailman-users%40python.org/